Everest

With the experience of the previous day, the second acclimatization training went very smoothly. They set off an hour earlier and arrived at the middle camp at noon. There were only a few people in the camp. It is no longer there. The people stationed said that they have officially started to climb Mount Everest. This news made everyone excited. The distant Mount Everest still stands there quietly, and now they know that someone has already climbed Mount Everest. On the way to conquer it.

The sudden passion made everyone temporarily decide to shorten the rest time. After a simple meal, they carried their luggage on their backs and continued up, heading towards the transitional camp.

"You can see some broken icebergs when you go up this section of the road, and pay attention to your feet. Xiao Geng had better luck yesterday, and the ice crevasses will become more and the gaps will be bigger when you go up. Everyone Pay attention to safety and try not to fall behind." Pei Lei, who is familiar with this section of the road, introduced to everyone, "But in general, there will be no great danger. It is estimated that we will arrive at three or four in the afternoon, and then we will go directly to it. Practice ice climbing, take a rest at night, and go down the mountain tomorrow."

Everyone had no objection to Pei Lei's arrangement. After yesterday's incident, Geng Aiqing didn't dare to continue to be presumptuous, but followed the team carefully.

When they approached the middle camp, they saw the first iceberg in the true sense. They said it was an iceberg, but it was actually a big iceberg rock. Because the temperature on the mountain is very low, these ices do not melt all year round, covering those tall The rocks have been weathered all year round to be extremely smooth, shining crystal luster in the sun, but these icebergs are still broken, just like the broken mountains along the way before.

"The iceberg wasn't here a few years ago." Pei Lei sighed, "Now it's all shrunk here."

"What do you mean?" Geng Aiqing didn't quite understand.

"Global warming has caused these icebergs to melt..." Lin Sheng was so excited when he saw the iceberg, he took a picture and explained casually. After he finished speaking, he took out a small notebook from his pocket and jotted it down. stand up.

Geng Aiqing leaned over: "What are you writing?"

"I'm collecting news materials, maybe I can show our unit later that I never forget my work while climbing the mountain!" Lin Sheng took off the camera and handed it to him, "You take a few photos for me first, I have to write something thing."

Geng Aiqing took the camera and clicked the shutter a few times while facing him.

Lin Sheng pointed at the iceberg, dumbfounded: "Shot on the iceberg! Why are you taking pictures of me!"

Geng Aiqing scolded him with a smile, held up the camera and turned around to aim at the iceberg. Then he saw Shen Biwen appearing in the camera. In the camera, Shen Biwen stood in front of the iceberg, reaching out to cover the iceberg. On the surface, compared with the whole iceberg, he looked so small, Geng Aiqing stepped back a few steps, trying to keep him and the whole iceberg in the camera, but Shen Biwen seemed to notice that he was taking pictures and turned around Lai nodded apologetically, then turned and walked away.

A feeling of disappointment suddenly surged in Geng Aiqing's heart. He suddenly realized that he hadn't spoken a word to Shen Biwen since morning. It seemed that Shen Biwen had been avoiding him. Geng Aiqing felt very uncomfortable. He found a good reason for himself. For example, they are a team after all. For example, from the very beginning, Shen Biwen emphasized that the team members should communicate with each other. It is possible to delay his mountaineering career.

"Shen Biwen!" Geng Aiqing opened his mouth and shouted, he didn't even know why he suddenly shouted.

Shen Biwen heard his voice and looked back at him.

Geng Aiqing looked at the camera, stretched out his hand to signal him to walk towards the iceberg, and shouted: "I want to take a picture of your action just now, yes, you turn your back and touch the iceberg..."

Geng Aiqing looked at Shen Biwen, looked back at him to check with him while making movements, Shen Biwen's expression was so clear in the zoomed-in picture.

"Okay, that's it." Geng Aiqing took a very professional photo of Shen Biwen and Bingshan.

In fact, he was not very professional, because Lin Sheng still scolded him for the photos he took.

The transitional camp was close at hand, so everyone relaxed a little bit. Yongke took Lin Sheng to take another set of photo albums for himself, took everyone in the team to take a group photo, and finally even moved a piece from another place. Stone, when he fixed the camera, he took a blurry group photo for everyone.

At 03:30 in the afternoon, their climbing team officially arrived at the transition camp. Surprisingly, there seemed to be very few people here, only a few dark-skinned men sitting at the door of the tent to welcome their arrival.

"Is there no one here?" Pei Lei stepped forward and asked.

A man sitting at the door of the tent took a puff of cigarette and pointed to the direction of the mountain: "They all went there!"

"All gone?" Pei Lei was a little surprised. Although there are more people climbing Mount Everest now, not all of them will go up.

The man knew at a glance that he had misunderstood, and explained: "Someone has an accident above, and everyone here has gone to help."

"An accident?" Geng Aiqing was stunned for a moment, and poked Lin Sheng next to him, "Does he mean someone died?"

"It's not yet determined whether he's dead or not." Hearing Geng Aiqing's words, the man sighed, "But even if he's not dead, he probably won't live long."

Geng Aiqing was shocked by the helplessness in his words, and opened his mouth to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything.

The man didn't say much, and led them to an empty tent.

"It's a coincidence that you came here. The people who live here have really gone mountaineering, and there is just one vacant room, otherwise you will have to set up your own tent." The man smiled.

"It's fine to wear it by yourself." Pei Lei took off the backpack and patted it on. "We all have it!"

"No, no, let's live here!" The man shook his head, "It's windy at night, don't overturn your tent."